I think the title gives this one away, but I have to admit that I am super excited (live Dr. H!), disappointed (I can’t make it), and thrilled (live Dr. H!) all at once by the news. Yes, folks, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is going to be performed live at DragonCon!
From the studio that brought you the fan audio drama: Buffy Between the Lines, comes the first officially sanctioned fan-production of Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog!
Sunday night, 11:30pm
August 31st, 2008 at DragonCon!
Podcasting Track (Downtown Atlanta Hilton on the 2nd Floor Rockdale room)
Dress up! Win Cool Prizes!
Watch Dr. Horrible and Sing Along with a full costumed cast!
ONLY OPEN TO THE FIRST 100 PEOPLE!
(This is the one. Tell your friends.)
What do you do to get away from your every day life? Do you play video games, veg out in front of the TV, stare blankly at the wall?
What about LARPing? (That’s Live Action Role Playing for those who might not know). Maybe you do… or maybe you just dismiss it as ridiculous without any real insight. They’re just nerds who act out their games because they can’t get laid, right?!
A while back I signed up for Bantam Dell Publishing’s email newsletter as part of a promotional game they were running in connection with George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. Well, yesterday I received an email announcing the free audiobook release of a Bantam book. The novel is Karen Marie Monig’s Darkfever, and it seems the entire work will be available as a series of free podcasts. From the email:
This the very first joint effort between Bantam Dell and one of its authors to release the full version of a book for free as a podcast. The book will be presented in its entirety, with four episodes per week available for download.
Apparently, Darkfever is a “paranormal romance.” Or, as the author writes in a blog entry on the novel’s Amazon page, “It’s the first installment of a story told over the course of five novels that is a romance, and a fantasy, and a mystery and even part thriller.” The novel’s heroine travels to Ireland to investigate her sister’s murder and apparently discovers she can see Fae and other mystical beings. Not surprisingly, vampires play a role as well. The book has an average review score of 3.5 stars on Amazon and there are 184 reviews. It was originally published in October, 2006.